#Yamaguchi Hiroko

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Live-Action Blue Period Film Gets A New Trailer, More Cast, And A New Theme Song

Live-Action Blue Period Film Gets A New Trailer, More Cast, And A New Theme Song #ブルーピリオド #manga #BluePeriod #anime #WurtS

Warner Bros Japan is creating a new piece of artwork with the live-action adaption of Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue Period Manga, which could be a masterpiece. In a new announcement, a brand-new visual, trailer, and cast list additions were released for the upcoming film. The new theme song for the film, NOISE will be performed by WurtS. Image Credit: Warner Bros. Japan Joining the cast will be…

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

Canon/Headcanon Voice Cast

//So I have a whole page on the blog talking about the headcanon voice actors, but I'm making a post here so people can access it easier, especially since I'm starting to realize that Tumblr has, for some reason, made editing the pages themselves a lot more complicated.

//This website continues to suck ass, but hey, we roll with the punches as per usual.

Danganronpa 1: Makoto Naegi - Bryce Papenbrook Kyoko Kirigiri - Erika Harlacher-Stone Byakuya Togami - Jason Wishnov Aoi Asahina - Cassandra Lee Morris Yasuhiro Hagakure - Kaiji Tang Toko Fukawa - Bennett Abara Genocide Jill - Erin Fitzgerald Sayaka Maizono - Dorothy Fahn Leon Kuwata - Grant George Chihiro Fujisaki - Dorothy Fahn Alter Ego - Dorothy Fahn Mondo Owada - Keith Silverstein Kiyotaka Ishimaru - Sean Chiplock Hifumi Yamada - Lucien Dodge Celestia Ludenburg/Taeko Yasuhiro - Marieve Herington Sakura Ogami - Jessica Gee George Mukuro Ikusaba - Bennett Abara Junko Enoshima (All Versions) - Bennett Abara & Erin Fitzgerald Monokuma - Brian Beacock

Danganronpa 2:

Hajime Hinata - Johnny Yong Bosch Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu - Derek Stephen Prince Kazuichi Soda - Kyle Hebert Sonia Nevermind - Natalie Hoover Akane Owari - Anairis Quinones Ultimate Imposter - Jessie James Grelle Teruteru Hanamura - Todd Haberkorn Mahiru Koizumi - Carrie Keranen Peko Pekoyama - Janice Kawaye Ibuki Mioda - Julie Ann Taylor Hiyoko Saionji - Kira Buckland Mikan Tsumiki - Stephanie Sheh Nekomaru Nidai - Patrick Seitz Gundham Tanaka - Chris Tergliafera Nagito Komaeda - Bryce Papenbrook Chiaki Nanami - Christine Cabanos Izuru Kamukura - Jonny Yong Bosh Usami - Rebecca Forstadt

Danganronpa 3 (the anime):

Seiko Kimura - Erin Fitzgerald Ryota Mitarai - Justin Briner Miaya Gekkogahara - Amber Lee Conners Daisaku Bandai - Tia Ballard Koichi Kizakura - Kaiji Tang Kyosuke Munakata - Ricco Fajardo Chisa Yukizome - Colleen Clinkenbeard

Danganronpa V3:

Shuichi Saihara - Grant George Maki Harukawa - Erica Mendez Himiko Yumeno - Christine Cabanos Kaede Akamatsu - Erika Harlacher-Stone Ryoma Hoshi - Chris Tergliafera Kirumi Tojo - Kira Buckland Angie Yonaga - Cassandra Lee Morris Tenko Chabashira - Julie Ann Taylor Miu Iruma - Wendee Lee Kaito Momota - Kyle Hebert Kokichi Ouma - Derek Stephen Prince Tsumugi Shirogane - Dorothy Fahn K1-B0/Keebo - Lucien Dodge Gonta Gokuhara - Kaiji Tang Rantaro Amami - Johnny Yong Bosch Korekiyo Shinguji - Todd Haberkorn Monodam - Jason Wishnov Monosuke - Brian Beacock Monotaro - Sean Chiplock Monophanie - Natalie Hoover Monokid - Patrick Seitz

Ultra Despair Girls:

Komaru Naegi - Cherami Leigh Monaca Towa - Christina Vee Nagisa Shingetsu - Erica Mendez Masaru Daimon - Tara Jayne Sands Kotoko Utsugi - Erika Lindbeck Jataro Kemuri - Michelle Ruff Yuta Asahina - Michelle Ruff Taichi Fujisaki - Tony Oliver Haiji Towa - Matthew Mercer Hiroko Hagakure - Jessica Straus

Danganronpa Another Despair Academy/Another 2:

Sora - Rachel Chau Yoruko Kabuya - Jeannie Tirado Yuki Maeda - Yuri Lowenthal Tsurugi Kinjo - Crispin Freeman Rei Mekaru - Laura Post Mikako Kurokawa - Brittany Cox Teruya Otori - Kyle McCarly Setsuka Chiebukuro - Elizabeth Maxwell Ryutaro Maki - Zach Aguilar Midori Yamaguchi - Jackie Lastra Keisuke Iranami - Liam O’ Brien Minako Tomori - Allegra Clark Iroha Nijiue - Sarah Williams Syobai Hashimoto - Mark Whitten Mikado Sannoji - Doug Erholtz Kanata Inori - Felicia Angelle Kanade Otonokoji - Ashley Johnson Akane Taira - Tara Platt Hikaru Ando - J. Michael Tatum Hibiki Otonokoji - Amalee Yamato Kisaragi - Max Mittelman

Danganronpa Blowback:

Akeru Yozora - Sarah Miller-Crews Yukari Koime - Erika Lindbeck Mikihiko Koyasunaga - Alejandro Saab Yosaku Fujita - Brook Chalmers Kana Ise - Laura Stahl Misako Rokuhana - Suzie Yeung Kanjiro Hayamoto - Kirk Thornton Seina Datenashi - Kayli Mills Shozo Asayoru - Zeno Robinson Ryo Koumori - Khoi Dao Chinami Hasami - Erin Ebers Mai Yurino - Lauren Landa Kazuki Watanabe - Sarah Natochenny

RebirthVoices:

Akira Tsuchiya - Kellen Goff Narumi Osone - Jenny Yokobori Misuzu Aisaka - Megan Taylor Harvey Kazuomi Samejima - Ben Balmaceda Ayumu Fujimoru - Johnny Yong Bosch Marin Mizuta - Christine Cabanos Mikoto Itsuki - Brianna Knickerbocker Kego Sakuma - Christian Banas Aruma Todoroki - Alexis Tipton Mitsunari Koga - Aaron Dismuke Seishi Yodogawa - Xander Mobus Nico Himuro - Chadni Parekh Zen Katagiri - Xander Mobus

Project: Eden’s Garden:

Eloise Taulner - Hannah Magers

Original Characters:

Kuripa Kurafto - Valentine Stokes Uchui Porosen - Christian La Monte Kibin Hatsudoki - Ashleigh Ball Eje Karma - Clifford Chapin Matta Gyalusetsu - Connor Colquhoun Kotoko Kurafto - Morgan Lauré Garrett Tsutsuji Magahara - Molly Zhang

Danganronpa V2: New World Order: All people listed below are the usernames of the original VA's. Actual names are unknown. M11-YU - Echo Mona - Bearpuff4 Dash - hi im stel Pierce - Silavent Blaise - 1412Destroyer Eden - Crash

Hyper Danganronpa H2O: Abandoned By Hope: Maya Canzanilla - Eden Riegal Four Kaiden - Kayleigh McKee Hunter Rosenhall - Ray Chase Kouji Ito - Shannon McKain Leona Vasquez - Macy Anne Johnson Oliver Feng - Erik Kimerer Emilia Feng - Genevieve Simmons

Master Detective Archives: Rain Code:

Yomi Hellsmile - Howard Wang

Other Characters:

Yui Samidare - Lizzie Freeman Kanon Nakajima - Cherami Leigh Natsumi Sato Kuzuryu - Corina Boettger

Joke Characters (Anti-Plot):

Lune - Aoi Yuki Steve - N/A Monoshado - Keanu Reeves (why not? XD) Monika - Jillian Ashcraft S-Sister - Cherami Leigh S-Animator - Valentine Stokes S-Writer - Bennett Abara S-Fiend - Erin Fitzgerald S-Luck - Bryce Papenbrook S-Divine - Yuri Lowenthal S-Pianist - Erika Harlacher-Stone S-Detective - Grant George S-Hope - Johnny Yong Bosch S-AI - Rachel Chau S-Barista - Eden Riegal

[koholint]

today’s playlist:

Warabe - Kiiroi Botan

Chris - Haru no Mezame

Yuuyu - Anchoko Nuki no Love Song

Miyuki Hara - Yudetamago to Boku

Hiroko Mita - Tokimeki Oboro

Yu Hayami - Love Light

Mariko - Nakimushi Tenshi

Concent Picks - Aishitekuretara

Keiko Okuda - Plastic

Kayoko Matsunaga - Melancholy no Kiseki

Amii Ozaki - Ai ni Koi Love is Gonna Get You

Tomoko Tane - Getabako no Kaijiken

Yoshie Kashiwabara - Kuchibiru Kande Jun’ai

Mioko Yamaguchi - Kaze ni Dakarete

Miyoko Yoshimoto - Hirusagari no Cinderella

Yasuko Tomita - Ringo Ame

thanks for listening!

[ulkaralakbarova]

Fight everyone and trust no one: it’s the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Casey: Scott Adkins Nakabara: Kane Kosugi Goro: Shun Sugata Namika: Mika Hijii Myat: Tim Man General Tsung: Vithaya Pansringarm Thug: Charlie Ruedpokanon Worker: Erika Nagamine Karate Fighter: Pim Bubear Compound Guard #1: David Bueno Dojo Fighter: Ron Smoorenburg Compound Guard #2: Nopparat Thongridsuk Hiroshi: Kitamoto Takato Waitress: Hiroko Yamaguchi Shopkeeper: Yasuhiko Miyauchi Toji: Satoshi Hashimoto Assistant Instructor: Shogo Tanikawa Suu: Saichia Wongwirot Lucas: Jawed El Berni Mike: Mukesh Bhhatt Martial Arts Student (uncredit): Tomio Araki Tourist (uncredit): Fredrik Divall Thug 2: Kazu Patrick Tang Film Crew: Writer: David N. White Director: Isaac Florentine Art Direction: Toey Jaruvaateekul Costume Design: Preeyanan Suwannathada Casting: Kaprice Kea Production Design: Rakpan Thanadpojanamart Producer: Boaz Davidson Music: Gerard K. Marino Music: Logan Mader Producer: Frank DeMartini Editor: Irit Raz Producer: Tom Waller Casting: Yumi Takada Director of Photography: Ross W. Clarkson Action Director: Tim Man Martial Arts Choreographer: Brahim Achabbakhe Movie Reviews: MovieGuys: Like a medium rare steak, with fries, coleslaw and an ice cold beer, Ninja Shadow of a Tear is simple but satisfying. This martial arts action flick is reminiscent of 80’s and 90’s martial arts films. Its not trying to be clever. Instead, its fast paced, entertaining and fun. Scott Atkins martial arts are top shelf and this flick gives him the opportunity to literally “let loose”. Indeed, the cast, which includes the son of a famous 80’s martial arts action star and extra’s, all appear to have above average martial arts skills. This lends this film polish and flair, that shows in the final product. Fight scenes that dominate this film, are crisply choreographed, a little inventive and fast paced. In summary, a great 80’s,90’s style martial arts action film, that’s entertaining from beginning to end. Keep em coming….!

[dorothydalmati1]

Urusei Yatsura 2022 Season 1 Episode 23: The Tomo-1 Queen Contest

Written by Hiroko Kanasugi

Storyboard by Yūsuke Kubo & Hideya Takahashi

Directed by Kiyomitsu Sato & Yūsuke Kubo

Animation directed by Sachiko Mori, Sachiko Sugimoto, Madoka Ozawa, Ryo Kobayashi, Shin Hyung Woo, Satoru Kobayashi, Naoki Hiramura, Toyoaki Fukushima, Mitsunori Yamaguchi, Sakurako Mitsuhashi & Akane Imada

[alba94]

Director: Hideto Hotta

Director of Photography: Ryosuke Sato

Assistant Camera: Ariu Honjo, Natsumi Tsuji, Takumi Endo Gaffer: Chen Lin

Assistant Light: Ryoma Takanezawa, Hiroyuki Yoshizawa Projection: Sennosuke Okumura Stylist: Yuya Canamori Hair & Make Up: Wakana Hair: Hiroko Yamaguchi (Red Eye)

Offline Edit: Hideto Hotta

Colorist: Max Golomidov

Title Design: Hikaru Muraoka

Production Manager: Ao Inoue

Production Assistant: Yudai Yamakawa, Hiroshi Sugita, Naoya Umada

Location: PD Tropical Fish Center, Theater Kamata

BTS Camera: Joe Tomorrow

A&R: Ayaka Kawahara

[iconnoteven]

Girls from Ousama Game 📱

[maserati-yokota]

Ice Ribbon 12-31-2012: Ribbon Mania 2012

"The opening elimination match...featured the pro debuts of Hiroko Terada, Rutsuko Yamaguchi, Ayano Takeda, Eri Wakamatsu, and Fumiko Sato, all from the Ice Ribbon Rookie Project. Sato would start being billed as 235, a play on the pronunciation of her name in Japanese. This show would feature Sayaka Obihiro's last Ice Ribbon match, and just a few hours later she would show up as a surprise at the former Ichigaya Ice Box to announce that she had joined Emi Sakura and the Gatoh Move promotion. Right away they book her into the main event of their 1/6/2013 show at Itabashi Green Hall, teaming with Kaori Yoneyama against Sakura and another former Ice Ribbon member, Riho." - Charles Short, Be Happy: The History of Ice Ribbon Girls Pro-Wrestling 2006-2016

Elimination Match: Risa Sera/Hiroko Terada/235 vs Rutsuko Yamaguchi/Eri Wakamatsu/Ayano Takeda

Jaiko Ishikawa vs Kuziro Oshima

4-way Tag: Makoto Oishi/Neko Nitta vs Cherry/Meari Naito vs Hailey Hatred/Kurumi vs  Aki Shizuku/Shoko Hotta

Yumiko Hotta vs Hamuko Hoshi

Kazunari Murakami vs Miyako Matsumoto

Kyoko Kimura/Sayaka Obihiro vs Aoi Kizuki/Tsukushi

Nanae Takahashi/Natsuki*Taiyo vs Hikaru Shida/Tsukasa Fujimoto

ICEx60 Title: Mio Shirai vs Maki Narumiya

link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/b2jnk0yq1gpt603/Ice_Ribbon_12-31-2012_Ribbon_Mania_2012.rar/file

[thekimonogallery]

Watanabe Productions 1973 group photo.

From the left in the front row, Nana Okumura / Mie Nakao / The Peanuts / Michiyo Azusa / Mari Sono / Kiyoko Ito / 2nd row Rumi Koyama / Izumi Yamaguchi / Mari Amachi / Rumiko Koyanagi / Ouyo Kaoru / Kyoko Yoshizawa / Hiroko Chiba / Large Reiko Shinoda / 3rd row Masami Naka / Kenji Sawada / Shinichi Mori / Akira Fuse / Kenichi Hagiwara / Sachio Itami (photographed in November 1972)

[askthedespairkids]

Mod, can we toss out another round of headcanons to pass the time?

//I'm gonna do a themed one this time around and I'm gonna do Danganronpa characters and where I think they're from in Japan and what prefecture they're from (and therefore dialect they're native to).

//Other than Teruteru, I don't think anyone has a confirmed place of origin in Japan (But I think Teru's is just "the countryside")??? Correct me if I'm wrong? But yeah, if this isn't the type of headcanon that interests you, I'm gonna be putting it under the cut

//Sonia and Angie are obviously excluded but everyone else is here

Hokkaido Sakura Imposter Hiyoko Gundam Kaito Seiko Izayoi Ruruka Bandai

Tohoku Mukuro (Miyagi) Junko (Miyagi) Chiaki (Akita) Nagisa (Aomori) Munakata (Iwata) Shuuichi (Miyagi)

Kanto Sayaka (Tokyo) Makoto (Tokyo) Komaru (Tokyo) Leon (Saitama) Hifumi (Chiba) Byakuya (Tokyo) Toko (Kanagawa) Kyouko (Tokyo) Jin (Tokyo) Hiro (Ibaraki) Hiroko (Ibaraki) Peko (Ibaraki) Fuyuhiko (Ibaraki) Mahiru (Ibaraki) Nekomaru (Saitama) Nagito (Tokyo) Kirumi (Tochigi) Gonta (Tokyo) Tsumugi (Tokyo) Monaca (Tokyo) Koichi (Chiba) Gozu (Kanagawa)

Chubu Chihiro (Niigata) Taichi (Niigata) Ryoma (Toyama) Himiko (Niigata) Kazuichi (Shizuoka)

Kansai Mondo (Osaka) Kiyotaka (Kyoto) Ibuki (Hyogo) Akane (Osaka) Miu (Wakayama) Kokichi (Osaka) Masaru (Kyoto) Kotoko (Osaka) Chisa (Shiga)

Chugoku Celes (Shimane) Mikan (Okayama) Kaede (Yamaguchi) Tengan (Okayama) Miaya (Okayama) Kiibo (Tottori)

Shikoku Teruteru (Kagawa) Tenko (Tokushima) Maki (Ehime) Jataro (Tokushima)

Kyushu Hina (Okinawa) Yuta (Okinawa) Rantarou (Fukuoka) Korekiyo (Kumamoto) Juzo (Saga)

[recentanimenews]

See How Dempsey Roll is Recreated in Hajime no Ippo Stage Play

    Before its opening at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stellar Ball in Tokyo on January 31, a final dress rehearsal for "Real Fighting 'Hajime no Ippo' The Glorious Stage!!," the first stage play adaptation of George Morikawa's long-running boxing manga Hajime no Ippo, was revealed to Japanese net news media.

  Then their video reports to introduce the play's main cast in costume and their iconic boxing moves, including the protagonist Ippo Makunouchi's Dempsey Roll, have been posted on YouTube. 21-year-old Kyoji Goto, who is cast as Ippo, has experience of shoot boxing, a combat sport created by former kickboxer Caesar Takeshi.

  As the manga's 30th anniversary project, the stage play will be performed from January 31 to February 9, 2020. 44-year-old Kohei Kiyasu, who voiced the protagonist Ippo Makunouchi in the anime series from 2000 to 2014, is attached to write and direct. 

    via: Cinema Today:

    via: Mini Theater Tsushin:

    via:My Navi News: 

    Latest web CM:

     Main visual:

  Main cast:

  Ippo Makunouchi: Kyoji Goto 

Ichiro Miyata: Ryo Takizawa 

Takeshi Sendo: Ryo Matsuda 

Mamoru Takamura: Koudai Takigawa 

Eiji Date: Hiroya Matsumoto 

Ryo Mashiba: Yuuki Okamoto 

Masaru Aoki: Kohei Shiota 

Tatsuya Kimura: Keito Takahashi 

Ryuichi Hayami: Shinichi Hashimoto 

Takuma Saeki: Daichi Yamaguchi 

Alexander Volg Zangief: Koji Saikaea

Masahiko Umesawa: Yushin Kamisaka 

Kumi MAshiba: Miku 

Hiroko Makunouchi: Megumi Hisashita 

Genji Kamokawa: Wataru Takagi

    Source: Cinema Today, Mini Theater Tsushin, My Navi News

  ©George Morikawa/KODANSHA, Nelke Planning

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[heatherhighlander]

Kill la Kill and Japanese classical pop music references: a masterpost

(gif created by @sailormoon-cola​) I don’t know if someone else here on Tumblr has already done it, but this morning I’ve finally started to search and listen to the Japanese classical pop songs referenced by every episode (for those who didn’t know it, an idea of the show’s head writer Kazuki Nakashima). Click on the highlighted English translation to listen to the song! I’ve already fallen in love with many of them.

PS: if you know the titles of the other Drama CDs or, more generally, other trivia on this matter, please, DM me and let me know! I’d love to make this post go more in-depth (:

ANIME

1. If Only I Had Thorns Like a Thistle... // Azami no Gotoku Toge Areba // あざみのごとく棘あれば, by Miyako Chaki.

2. So Sexy She Might Pass Out // Kizetsu Suru Hodo Nayamashii // 気絶するほど悩ましい , by Char.

3. Purity // Junketsu // 純潔, by Saori Minami.

4.  Dawn Of A Miserable Morning // Totemo Fukō na Asa ga Kita  // とても不幸な朝が来た, by Jun Mayuzumi.

5. Trigger // Hikigane //  銃爪, by Masanori Sera & TWIST.

6. Don’t Toy With Me On A Whim //  Kibun Shidai de Semenaide // 気分次第で責めないで, by the Southern All Stars.

7. A Loser I Can’t Hate // Nikumi Kirenai Rokudenashi // 憎みきれないろくでなし, by Kenji Sawada.

8. I Will Wipe My Own Tears // Ore no Namida wa Ore ga Fuku // 俺の涙は俺が拭く, by Katsuhiko Miki.

9. A Once In A Lifetime Chance //  Chansu wa Ichido // チャンスは一度, by Hideki Saijo.

10. I Want To Know More About You //  Anata o Motto Shiritakute // あなたを・もっと・知りたくて, by Hiroko Yakushimaru.

11. I’m Not Your Cute Woman //  Kawaii Onna to Yobanai de // 可愛い女と呼ばないで, by Yuko Kanai.

12. Spit Your Sadness Away //  Kanashimi ni Tsuba o Kakero // 悲しみにつばをかけろ, by Naoki Hongo.

13. Crazy For You // Kimi ni Barabara... Toiu Kanji // 君に薔薇薔薇…という感じ, by Toshiko Tahara.

14. Ride Like The Wind //  Isoge Kaze no Yō ni // 急げ風のように, by Takao Hirata & Cellsters.

15. Don’t Stop Me Now // Dōnimo Tomaranai // どうにもとまらない, by Linda Yamamoto.

16. The Girl Can’t Help It // Onna wa Sore o Gaman Dekinai // 女はそれを我慢できない, by Reiko Oshida.

17. Tell Me Why // Naze ni Omae wa // 何故にお前は, by Kitaoji Kin’ya.

18. Into The Night // Yoru e Isogu Hito // 夜へ急ぐ人, by Naomi Chiami.

19. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head // Tadoritsuitara Itsumo Amefuri // たどりついたらいつも雨ふり, by The Mops.

20. Far From The Madding Crowd // Tōku Gunshū o Hanarete // とおく群衆を離れて, by Tomoko Ota.

21. Incomplete // Mikansei // 未完成, by Hiromi Go.

22. Tell Me How You Feel // Kuchibiru yo, Atsuku Kimi o Katare //  唇よ、熱く君を語れ, by Machiko Watanabe.

23. Imitation Gold //  Imiteishon Gōrudo //  イミテイション・ゴールド, by Yamaguchi Momoe.

24. Past The Infinite Darkness // Hateshinaki Yami no Kanata ni //  果てしなき闇の彼方に, by Ichiro Araki (ending theme of the second Ashita no Joe series).

25. Goodbye Again //  Sayonara o Mōichido //  さよならをもう一度, by Kiyohiko Ozaki.

DRAMA CD

1. I Really, Truly Appreciate Your Work // Honto Ni Honto Ni Gokurosan // ほんと に ほんと に ごくろさん, by The Drifters.

2. Between The Night And The Morning // Yoru to Asa no Aida ni // 夜と朝のあいだに, by Shinnosuke “Peter” Ikehata.

3. Perfect Girl Evolution // Yamato Nadeshiko shichi henge // ヤマトナデシコ七変化, by Kyoko Koizumi.

4. I’m Not Made of Tears // Kazari Janai no yo Namida wa // 飾りじゃないのよ涙は ,by Akina Nakamori.

NOVEL

Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child // Toki Ni Wa Haha No Nai Ko No You Ni // 時には母のない子のように, by Carmen Maiki  (an interesting post about this song was already made by one of my favorite KLK blog, @marshmallowgoop ).

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Moon founded “The World’s Greediest Church”

The cash that built the Moon organization’s “foundation.”

▲ Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han of the Unification Church, now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, with one of the marble pagodas that were sold to the Japanese for eye-watering sums. Moon and Han reportedly denied knowledge of the scam.

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by Ben Hills Sydney Morning Herald  May 7, 1993

The Unification Church of Japan stated: ��We do not participate in profit-making activities.”

“I don’t feel embarrassment … deep remorse is a better word,” confesses Kiyoharu Takahashi, blinking furiously behind his black-rimmed eyeglasses.

For 400 years, a small plot of land on the urban fringe of Tokyo had been in the family, once retainers of the local daimyo (lord of the manor). Five years ago, Mr Takahashi, then a university student, aged 26, persuaded his family to take out mortgages over the property. Although there is less than a hectare of land, it contains the family home, a turf farm, a rented house and two blocks of flats.

Even so, it still amazes Kiyoharu how much the banks were prepared to lend on it. By the time the credit dried up, he had received $67.5 million, repayments had fallen behind and the banks were threatening to foreclose. Four centuries of family history were about to go down the drain.

What caused this calamity ?

Every cent of the money – plus another $500,000 or so in savings that the Takahashis had put aside over the years – was handed over to an organisation Japanese are starting to call the greediest church in the world, the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, known to the less devout as the Moonie church – the Unification Church (and now The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification).

Its founder and Pope is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a 73-year-old, thrice-married father of [more than] 13 who now lives in the United States, where he has done time in prison for [document fraud and] tax evasion.

Although he is better known for his mass marriage spectaculars – last year he hired the Olympic stadium in Seoul to celebrate the wedding of 30,000 followers, most of whom had never met each other before – Moon has spent the last 40 years building up a formidable religious multinational.

And Japan is the place where Moon Industries Inc, a conglomerate that trades under more than 100 corporate identities, has made its most spectacular, and some would say ungodly, gains.

Young Mr Takahashi is only one of 8,350 people who have come forward, claiming they have been ripped off by the Moonies, since a national legal network was set up to help them get their money back six years ago. The total amount they claim to have been cheated out of is a staggering $568 million. Cases are listed in more than a dozen courts.

Many of them, like Mr Takahashi, say they have been blackmailed into borrowing beyond their means, then handing the money over. In his case, barely credibly, he was told that his father’s Parkinson’s Disease was due to an ancient curse which could only be lifted from the family by prayer … and enormous amounts of money.

Another reformed Moonie – “Tomiko” is a 34-year-old English teacher from Tokyo – was told her lack of luck in love was because of the “dirty” money which she had saved. She took her life savings, $5,000, to a flat where the Moonies sprinkled salt in the four corners of the room, said prayers, and made it all disappear.

“Unfortunately, Japanese seem more susceptible to this sort of thing than people in other countries,” says Hiroshi Yamaguchi, a member of the lawyers’ network, who is handling cases for 25 former Moonies, including Takahashi, Tomiko, and a woman in Australia who was swindled out of $12,000.

People are being enticed into a range of activities which have no overt connection with the Moonies.

There are about 100 Moonie-owned “video centres” around Tokyo where people are invited in and then recruited.

Another favourite ploy is to organise conferences by front organisations, such as the World Peace Professors’ Academy, the Society of Field Flowers, the Japan-Korea Tunnel Task Force and even the Women’s Federation for World Peace, which last year held a meeting at Sydney’s Ritz Carlton Hotel.

No-one knows how many followers the Reverend Moon has attracted since he went international in the mid-1960s. He claims five million followers in 160 countries (including Australia) but a more realistic assessment by former members of the cult is around one-tenth that number [possibly at the zenith – now many fewer].

Even so, Japan – where there are thought to be around 20,000 hard-core Moonies – is beyond doubt one of the most profitable parts of his empire. Or was, until the recent deluge of bad publicity.

Tokyo’s tabloids have been agog for a month over the disappearance of Hiroko Yamasaki, a 33-year-old former Olympic gymnast, who has provided the church with acres of publicity since her marriage at the mass-wedding in Korea last year to a groom selected for her by the Rev Moon. 

She reappeared, renouncing the church and claiming it had all been a terrible mistake.

▲ Hiroko Yamasaki facing nearly 200 journalists in April 1993.

After being indoctrinated the converts are put out on the streets of Tokyo to bring in other recruits, and to make money selling products door-to-door.

Mr Takahashi displays some of the products he was obliged to sell. There is a 300-gram jar of extract from Korean ginseng (a parsnip-like root which tastes a bit like tobacco and is reputed to be medicinal) – this sold for $1,000, when the over-the-counter price in Korea is about $150. The Reverend Moon’s Il Hwa factory near Seoul is South Korea’s largest ginseng processor.

A set of three name-seals, worth about $125, is sold for up to $15,000. All Moonies dream of selling the jewelled pagoda – a model studded with what look like bits of glass that goes for $67,500.

After her conversion, Tomiko became a real cash cow. Even though she had no property to put up as collateral, she borrowed more than $50,000 from eight different banks and handed it over. She sold her family a garage full of Moonie products – her mother paid $20,000 for a kimono, her father $8,000 for a sauna, among other things. “I became a saleswoman … they said it was the way to achieve heaven on earth.“

Gullible? Perhaps. But 8,349 more like her? Sadao Asami, professor of theology at Tohoku University, believes that there is something about the Japanese that makes them more susceptible to Moon’s brand of religion.

Professor Asami has earned a nickname, “the Devil’s priest”, from the Moonies because of the help he has given hundreds of families, “rescuing” their children from the Moonies. He has worked with 500 to 600 former followers. He says that Japanese remain dependent on their parents much longer than people in the West, and that they are thus more immature. As well, the Japanese culture entertains a variety of religious and superstitious beliefs.

They also, says Mr Yamaguchi, have a lot of money.

Until recently, the Tokyo Moonies have been trying to quietly settle most of the claims out of court. However, in January, Michio Fujii, the head of the church in Japan, wrote to Mr Yamaguchi apologising for the “mismanagement of subordinates of the Unification Church” – but saying that repayment of money would be “temporarily stopped.”

This means that Mr Takahashi is in trouble. The church had repaid most of the money and had taken over repayments on the loans. But $3 million is outstanding. The Moonies’ headquarters is in the fashionable suburb of Shibuya, a three-storey building that occupies most of a city block.

Unfortunately, neither Mr Fujii, nor anyone else, was willing to put the church’s point of view on these serious allegations. They later sent an anonymous fax, denying everything and claiming bare-facedly: “We do not participate in profit-making activities.”

The Unification Church’s own publications boast of a global business empire valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The core is the Sae-il engineering company, which began making air-rifles, and now manufactures machine-tools in Korea, Germany and Africa. Then there is the Il Hwa company which produces more than 40 different pharmaceutical products, ginseng and soft-drinks; in Alabama, there is International Oceanic Enterprises which catches and packs seafood; in Alaska, the Master Marine company makes fibreglass fishing trawlers; the Moonies own the Paragon House publishing firm, the Washington Times newspaper and a four-storey complex in Barrytown, New York, where they run a theological seminary.

Although his worries are not over, Mr Takahashi – along with several thousand other former converts – is thankful to be out of it. And not to have to go through with the “marriage” he had in 1988 … along with 6,499 other couples. In a hall at a Seoul soft-drink factory, he saw his bride for the first time. “I had built up expectations of how beautiful she was going to be,” he says “When I saw her I got vertigo.”

Two of his fellow Moonies committed suicide. One, a middle-aged woman who was being pressured into handing over some land, jumped off a building. Another, a man who was married at a mass wedding, jumped in front of a car.

“At the time I believed in it,” says Mr Takahashi, “Now I know it was only blackmail and lies aimed at getting their money.”

▲ In 2006, the Moons were brought 240 gold crowns (120 for each ot them) in a procession at their $1billion palace in the mountains near Cheongpyeong.

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Hiroko Yamasaki (former Olympic athlete in rhythmic gymnastics) joined and left UC

“Moon betrayed his followers and distorted the church’s lofty goals by turning his movement into a huge money-making machine.”

“Japan. Wow! My eyes were opened.” A huge UC scam in Japan is revealed.

Video of Unification Church ABUSE in Japan shown in court

Moon personally extracted $500 MILLION from Japanese sisters in the fall of 1993. He demanded that 50,000 sisters attend HIS workshops on Cheju Island and each had to pay a fee of $10,000.

Japan High Court judge upholds “UC used members for profit, not religious purposes”. This has serious ramifications.

Religious Freedom for Japanese Members! (The FFWPU established a slave caste.)

Sun Myung Moon – Emperor of the Universe

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[Update] リアルファイティング『はじめの一歩』The Glorious Stage!! (real fighting hajime no ippo the glorious stage!!)

the show will be running from January 31st, 2020 to February 9th, 2020 (Tokyo) @ 品川プリンスホテル ステラボール (Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stella Ball)

Cast:

Gotou Kyouji as Makunouchi Ippo (幕之内一歩)

Takizawa Ryou as Miyata Ichirou (宮田一郎)

Matsuda Ryou as Sendou Takeshi (千堂武士)

Takikawa Koudai as Takamura Mamoru (鷹村守)

Matsumoto Hiroya as Date Eiji (伊達英二)

Okamoto Yuuki as Mashiba Ryou (間柴了)

Shiota Kouhei as Aoki Masaru (青木勝)

Takahashi Keito as Kimura Tatsuya (木村達也)

Hashimoto Shinichi as Hayami Ryuuichi (速水龍一)

Yamaguchi Daichi as Saeki Takuma (冴木卓麻)

Saikawa Kooji as Volg Zangief (ヴォルグ・ザンギエフ)

Kamisaka Yuujin as Umezawa Masahiko (梅沢正彦)

Mirai as Mashiba Kumi (間柴久美)

Kuge Megumi as Makunouchi Hiroko (幕之内寛子)

Takagi Wataru as Kamogawa Genji (鴨川源二)

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Urusei Yatsura 2022 Season 1 Episode 20: Recovering That Which Was Lost

Written by Hiroko Kanasugi

Storyboard by Tomoko Iwasaki

Directed by Yasuhiro Kimura

Animation directed by Sachiko Mori, Sachiko Sugimoto, Madoka Ozawa, Naoki Hiramura, Shin Hyung Woo, Toyoaki Fukushima, Mitsunori Yamaguchi & Sakurako Mitsuhashi

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